[jzamerican]

Is that wing going to stay? Looks like a Saleen Mustang wing?...No offence just takes away from the car imo? That trim looks cool!

its called a whaletail and for some reason guys around here like them.

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Yes the wing is going to stay. They look pretty good to me :dunno:

 

[87supramario]

Looks good so far! What was the procedure and paint code did you use to prep and paint the intake and twin piping? It looks nice. What moldings are you missing?

 

[1SLOMKIII]

I let them soak in solvent and used a wire brush to get all of the crap off, sandblasted, cleaned off with warm simple green then painted with SP117 Flat Aluminum Engine Paint. I'm missing the center garnish on the tail lights, both the driver and passenger doors and just in front of those.

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Here is when I got the motor from a guy who attempted to a 1jz swap




Tear down! Notice the nastiness :barf:



Paint





Belts/ Seals



LC1


Picked up an R154



A used 6 puck...

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Radiator Came in!




Got the motor on the stand



Albert came over and we tore it down to inspect the bearings and paint the block. The rod bearings looked amazing! Super happy about that




During the cleaning of the block we discovered a little problem />

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu5FhvGiimg


Paint!



I decided to paint a few other things and mock it up. Looks so tits




Cleaned up the upper pan.... took fooorrrrrevvvverrrrrr.



Took all the Sh*t back off, popped out the freeze plugs and replaced them

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Took the casings off the R154, cleaned and painted them. Took forever! Everybody that drove by looked at me like what the hell is this guy doing.






Bell housing came in so I painted it and slapped it on




Found a flywheel on Craigslist for a decent price, got ARP flywheel bolts put it on and mounted the trans

 

[1SLOMKIII]

After all the work making the twins look good, Albert talked me into going single. After trading a few parts he gave me this.

Borg Warner s256, AGP 4960 Anti-surge housing 4" inlet 2" outlet, Master Power .68 A/R Exhaust housing. :wackit:



Ordered a few goodies from DM. After waiting for what seemed like forever they finally came in!

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Picked up an uncut JZA70 harness, ECU, map sensor and intake temp.

Harness ran



Ran fuel lines for the dual walbros to a stock rail





Modified the chinafold for the wastegate to fit and welded a 90 on the turbo

 

[1SLOMKIII]

First start!!!!

http://youtu.be/KYdNGlIwn_0

As you can hear the motor isn't firing on all cylinders. The previous owner of the harness was running a 2jz ECU and had the injectors set up for sequential. He said he changed it back to batch for a stock 1j ECU. I couldn't figure out the issue so I pulled car out to run some tests on the wiring for the injectors



Spent at least an hour trying to figure it out when I noticed the check engine light was on and thought I would check codes. When I popped Open the diagnostic box there was a jumper from FP to +B... Took that out and the car ran fine

Second Start!!

http://youtu.be/I6TlbwDZNYU

 

[1SLOMKIII]

First night taking the car out. Had about 6 months of dust on it

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Talked my dad into going to the AZSupras BBQ a few weeks ago. Pulled his NA out for the first time in months. Cleaned it up and got it ready to go.

 

[Clint G]

I miss my old MKIII! Thank you Jeff for bringing her back to life!

 

[1SLOMKIII]

I miss my old MKIII! Thank you Jeff for bringing her back to life!

Now on to go fast bits!



Attempted to clean up/update this sad excuse for a thread.

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Haven't been on here in forever!

Not much has changed with the car but it's slowly getting there. October 2014 my first R154 decided to blow up. Luckily I found one local for $550. Picked it up in my white 87. Taking the trans out of the hatch by myself with blown struts was fun! Set the trans on the ground and started to get the 1J ready to pull out.















And it's back in!

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Fast forward to January this year. Took the car out to a local drift event! First time ever driving on track.





Moving in to April. 2nd annual AZ Supras BBQ

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Now to the most recent stuff! Some sweet JDM goodies came in the other day

Cam Shifter and a Nardi wheel





JZA70 R Floor mats.





Custom LED JDM Tails!!





Pics don't do justice!





Chopped off the rice can and replaced it with a 4" straight







Basically just going for style with this car for now.

Will post more as the goodies come in!

 

[LY 3E5]

Nice build. I'm jealous of that JZA70 R interior. It's so clean.

 

[DimpleD]

Very nicely put together. I love that Nardi wheel, I'm currently running the 330 version of it in another car.

 

[1SLOMKIII]

Hello everyone. I just realized I have owned this car for 10 years now. Since It's been nearly 8 years since my last post. I figured I'd hop on and leave an update of whats happened to the car.

Not long after my last post 9/2015 I acquired Stance GR Coilovers a set of Weds Cerberus I wheels. 18x9 +25 / 18x10.5 +6 a silver face 360mm Nardi Classic and a Recaro SR3 Lemans.

Best $115 ever spent considering todays prices.

Not much happened with the car for a while so fast-forward to the end of 2021. It's time for a style change.

18x10.5 +15 TE37 SL
Trial front lip
"BN" skirts
Bomex spats

Wasn't really digging this look so new aero it is.

Abflug skirts/spats
Carbon Kaminari wing
Signal covers

Anyone have a LHD Euro mirror to replace my broken one? I'll take a set of Ganadors as well.